Been using Qwen-3.6-27B-q8_k_xl + VSCode + RTX 6000 Pro As Daily Driver

So in response to the Great Token Reconning of 2026, I decided to try out Qwen 3.6 as a daily driver, and although it's only been about a day, I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed. I had to download the VSCode insiders edition and set up the local models to - super easy. Then I messed around with Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6 (served with LM Studio) while performing typical tasks as I build out an app that does a lot of data mining and web scraping. After trying out all the versions of the two models with the different quants, there is a clear winner: Qwen-3.6-27B-q8_k_xl by Unsloth.